| Gunfreak | 19 Nov 2008 1:56 p.m. PST |
For you that don't know Operation FlashPoint is a computer game from 01, set in 1985. But the game has been modded with lots and lots of mods, one of them is a Napoleonic mod, you got all the combatens from the wars and even a map based on the field of waterloo. not everything is perfect, the it wasn't possible to mod so cannonballs don't skip along the ground, the explode like chells, the effekt looks like the explotions from the waterloo movie. But whats cool about the mod is that it's a first person shooter. so you are litterly in the shoes of a soldier in a battle.
The game engien can't handle true napoelinc scale warfare, but you can get about 300-400 soldiers on the field with dozens of cannon.
If you look past the old graphics it's very "real" you stand in line and suddenly the cannons open fire and the man next to you gets cut down, then the enemy opens fire with muskets and half a dozen more fall.
And the canister is pure murder.
If you happen to have OFP somewere I recomend you try it.
It makes the whole era come more to life. |
| Grinning Norm | 20 Nov 2008 7:38 a.m. PST |
So it's more or less a simulation of Re-enacting then? Sounds like something I definitely will have to try. |
| Gunfreak | 20 Nov 2008 8:06 a.m. PST |
yes, I guess it's as close to reenactment as you can get with out spending thousands of £
also most reenactor event don't have chells blowing up in the ranks. it's very cool to watch when arty on both sides open fire and you see the whole battlefield filled with cannon hits |
| Robert le Diable | 20 Nov 2008 12:36 p.m. PST |
What kind of Computer (or, with what kind of operating system/amount of Memory &c) would be required to run the original game, plus the modification (?expansion)? Please explain in terms that could be understood by someone not very au fait with all the complexities of Computer "jargon". |
| Gunfreak | 20 Nov 2008 1:01 p.m. PST |
well the game is from 2001, so any computer after that would run it(mabye not if you have vista) I would think any PC with Windows XP would run the game and mod |
| Grinning Norm | 20 Nov 2008 11:17 p.m. PST |
Albeit the game is oldish, a fair graphics card will help, if you want to use maximum graphics (which look pretty good, when the game was brand new, it was impossible to run it on max. graphics). But these days anything but a very low end refined typewriter is probably good enough. |
| WereSandwich | 21 Nov 2008 3:29 a.m. PST |
Curse my low end refined typewriter, this sounds really cool. |
| Robert le Diable | 21 Nov 2008 8:07 a.m. PST |
Windows XP, eh? I guess that means Windows 98 isn't suitable? |
| Gunfreak | 21 Nov 2008 8:14 a.m. PST |
I would think it would work fine, in fact, I'm sure of it,
as I have played OFP on a computer with 98,
but if the computer is old, then you probebly could only play small skirmish fights, with a few dozen solders, any bigger then that and I think it would lag alot.
ofcourse you could have a newer comp with 98, in that case you could play bigger battles |
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